Wednesday, February 10, 2016

This is
live, happening from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. The
FBI is acting in a very intimidating manner, and the negotiators has
hung up, A Nevada Assemblywoman is attempting to intervene, but the FBI
is refusing any intervention. The live stream is coming from inside the
Refuge

As I watched my local Montgomery, Alabama news station this morning, I
saw that question pop up on the screen. What’s holding Alabama back?
Wait, what? What do you mean by “holding back?”

In the segment, the news station sent out a roving reporter on the
streets of Montgomery to ask random citizens to tell him what they
believe is “holding Alabama back.” The reporter got a brainstorm of an
idea by creating an impromptu ballot box with “WHAT’S HOLDING ALABAMA
BACK?” written on all sides. He placed the box on a table with some
blank index cards and Sharpies, and allowed people to anonymously write
their responses on the cards and drop them in the box.

According to the
reporter, allowing people to remain anonymous would greatly improve the
chances of people giving honest answers. However, it also simultaneously
eliminated any possibility of checking for significant differences in
responses according to gender, race, age, etc. I kind of would have
liked to have known all that, which I think he finally figured out the
hard way when he started tallying the results.

The commanding general has observed with marked satisfaction the conduct
of the troops on the march, and confidently anticipates results
commensurate with the high spirit they have manifested.
No troops could have displayed greater fortitude or better performed the
arduous marches of the past ten days. Their conduct in other respects
has with few exceptions been in keeping with their character as
soldiers, and entitles them to approbation and praise. There have
however been instances of forgetfulness on the part of some, that they
have in keeping the yet unsullied reputation of the army, and that the
duties expected of us by civilization and Christianity are not less
obligatory in the country of the enemy than in our own.

The commanding general considers that no greater disgrace could befall
the army, and through it our whole people, than the perpetration of the
barbarous outrages upon the unarmed, and defenceless [sic] and the
wanton destruction of private property that have marked the course of
the enemy in our own country.

Such proceedings not only degrade the perpetrators and all connected
with them, but are subversive of the discipline and efficiency of the
army, and destructive of the ends of our present movement.

It must be remembered that we make war only upon armed men, and that we
cannot take vengeance for the wrongs our people have suffered without
lowering ourselves in the eyes of all whose abhorrence has been excited
by the atrocities of our enemies, and offending against Him to whom
vengeance belongeth, without whose favor and support our efforts must
all prove in vain.

The commanding general therefore earnestly exhorts the troops to abstain
with most scrupulous care from unnecessary or wanton injury to private
property, and he enjoins upon all officers to arrest and bring to
summary punishment all who shall in any way offend against the orders on
this subject.

The
mayor of the town of Bad Schlema, a small district in central Germany,
recently told community members that prepubescent girls should be
careful about how they dress so that they don’t sexually provoke the
Muslim refugees. Mayor Jens Muller also added that young girls should
take alternative routes to school in order to avoid the threat of Muslim
male pedophiles.

When
the grandfather of a school age girl asked about the mayor’s sexual
assault prevention program, citing anecdotal evidence about a massive
uptake in harassment complaints since the arrival of Muslim migrants,
Muller gave what was probably the worst answer humanly imaginable.

“That’s easy,” proclaimed Muller.
“Just don’t provoke them and don’t walk in these areas.” Apparently,
it’s incumbent on elementary school girls to avoid the wrath of Muslim
child-rapists. Not only did Muller sexualize prepubescent children, but
he displaced blame, implying that Muslim male migrants are essentially
stuck in their ways, incorrigible and incapable of controlling the urge
not to stalk, haunt, and molest kids.

This elderly woman describes the daily terror she faces from
Muslim migrants. At first she welcomed them, bringing them sweets,
candies, and clothes. But the daily harassment is relentless. She cannot
take the subway without being threatened. On the train, she is taunted
with pornographic images on migrants’ ipads. She rails against Merkel
and the political elite in their glass houses and limousines, completely
out of touch with the reality of the new Germany.

This old woman predicts war. She says she lived through the last one
(WWII) and it was horrible, but the German people are left with no other
choice.

Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason Riley explains the trouble with Black History Month in modern times:

The irony is that black history in the first half of the 20th century
is a history of tremendous progress despite overwhelming odds. During a
period of legal discrimination and violent hostility to their
advancement, blacks managed to make unprecedented gains that have never
been repeated. Black poverty fell to 47% from 87% between 1940 and 1960 —
before the implementation of Great Society programs that receive so
much credit for poverty reduction. The percentage of black white-collar
workers quadrupled between 1940 and 1970—before the implementation of
affirmative-action policies that supposedly produced today’s black
middle class.

Tomorrow, John Kerry will meet Sergei Lavrov and several of
his other counterparts from Europe and the Mid-East in Munich in a last
ditch effort to revive Syrian peace talks, which fell apart amid an
intense Russian air assault on rebel positions in Aleppo.

For all intents and purposes, the rebels are surrounded.
Initially, it appeared that the “moderate” opposition might be able to
persist and bog down the Russians and the Iranians with the help of
supplies from the US, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. Those hopes faded over
the past two weeks when Hezbollah advanced on Aleppo and ultimately
encircled the city, cutting the rebels off from key supply lines and
triggering a mass civilian exodus.

The talks in the Bavarian capital come at what is perhaps
the most crucial point in the conflict to date. With the opposition on
the ropes, it’s do or die time for Riyadh, Ankara, Doha, and the UAE.
Either the Gulf monarchies send in ground troops to shore up the rebels
or Hezbollah and the IRGC will overrun them in a matter of weeks - or
perhaps even days.

Of course the opposition’s Sunni benefactors can’t exactly
say they’re going into Syria to fight Iran and the Russians. Any ground
incursion will be justified by the need to “fight ISIS” even though the
Islamic State presence in Aleppo is markedly less pronounced than in
other besieged urban centers like Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor. Indeed, the
effort is so transparent that even the mainstream media has been forced
to acknowledge it.

Bush, the multimillion-dollar man, reportedly spent $36 million in New
Hampshire to Cruz’s half-million and Trump’s next-to-nothing, but his
super PAC donors have deep, deep pockets. So Jeb’s likely to be in the
race as long as his donors are willing.

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Why does the mainstream media heap such scorn and disbelief on Donald Trump over his promise to build a great wall along the border with Mexico — and make Mexico pay for it? After all, Donald Trump has built a winning presidential campaign — and made the media pay for it.

In
one day the entire world became acutely aware of an aspect of Islam.
That day was December 31, 2016. The event was New Year’s Eve. The
location was Cologne, Germany. Within three weeks, over 800 crimes were
reported for that one night. 359 sex crimes were reported. 659 women
were listed as victims. All 30 of the initial suspects initially
identified were North African, 18 of which were recent immigrants. All
reports said that the suspects spoke Arabic. The German justice
minister told a German newspaper that he surmises the crimes that took
place in Cologne during New Year celebrations were "coordinated or
prepared.”

The
women testified to the horror they lived through that night. Michelle,
an 18-year-old German woman, says, “The men then moved in and, despite
their screaming out, began to molest the group of girls. Getting through
their thick winter clothes, the girls told the television station about
being touched on the legs, back, buttocks, and upper body. She said
they protested, but the men didn’t appear to understand German. “They
were all foreigners,” said Michelle.

In order for users to feel confident expressing themselves “freely and
safely,” Twitter is debuting a new advisory group dubbed the “Trust
& Safety Council.” But a quick glance at its membership roster
suggests the council is almost as Orwellian as it sounds—and
overwhelmingly biased in favor of speech suppression.

In Austria “refugees” are given priority for hospital visits.
Via The Local:

The reason is that many asylum seekers need expensive
translators to help communicate with doctors, and officials do not want
to pay for the translators to sit around waiting.

The problem was highlighted last week when large numbers of people
turned up at hospitals because of a flu epidemic, and h

ad to wait to see
doctors whilst asylum seekers were given priority treatment.
As part of the asylum process, refugees get a health check. With
90,000 asylum seekers registered last year, this has put a huge strain
on health resources.

Austrian officials have confirmed that they have been ordered not to
make asylum seekers wait and to give them fast track treatment.

In Bavaria, a carnival float made to resemble a Nazi tank read: "Asylum defense."

The Swedes are aggravated with Mid-East migrants.

With the highest per capita rate of sheltered asylum
seekers in Europe, Sweden has become something of a poster child for
migrant mischief.

In the wake of the sexual assaults that swept the bloc on
New Year’s Eve, the world is suddenly focused on Sweden, where some say
police conspired to cover up
a series of attacks that allegedly occurred in central Stockholm’s
Kungsträdgården last August and where a 22-year-old aid worker was
recently stabbed to death by a Somali migrant.

The backlash in the country is palpable and recently manifested itself in a move by the “football hooligan” crowd to stage an assault on Stockholm’s main train station where dozens of Moroccan migrant children are apparently camped out.

On Tuesday, in the latest sign that Swedes are becoming
increasingly fed up with their government’s policy on refugees, more
than a dozen people were arrested for planning an attack on an asylum
center. Apparently, the men were plotting to use “axes, knives, and iron pipes” against a refugee shelter in Nynashamn, which is located some 60 kilometres (37 miles) south of Stockholm.

With Europe at a complete and total loss as to how to deal with the
bloc's worst refugee crisis since World War II, countries have
increasingly adopted their own, ad hoc "solutions" which include razor
wire anti-migrant fences in Hungary and the suspension of Schengen in
Austria, where the backlash against asylum seekers is growing more
palpable by the day.

An ill-fated quota system devised by Berlin and Brussels proved more
divisive than it did helpful and the wave of alleged sexual assaults
that swept through the region on New Year's Eve threatens to derail the
settlement effort altogther.

"We have until March, the summer maybe, for a European solution," one unnamed German official told Retuers last month. "Then Schengen goes down the drain."

Via Mike "This is an interesting analysis of Donald Trump by Dr. Sam Sewell. I think besides Trump perhaps Cruz, Carson, and Fiorina also fall into the 140+ IQ range. I think we need somebody pretty smart to manage a Republic of 320 million people with a complex economy $18 trillion, 17 percent of the world economy. This is especially important, when our economic, social, and foreign policy problems have reached a point where many people, notably Senator Jeff Sessions, believe the 2016 election may be the last chance to save our country. The most interesting part of Dr. Sewell's analysis, however, is his evaluation of the motivational part of Trump's personality based on Maslow's need theory. As a military historian, the analysis reminds me of General Patton. General Patton was outspoken enough to give his military and political superiors some concern, but he got things done and battles won like nobody else.

On issues like Islam and immigration control especially but also on other issues, I keep asking myself two questions about all the candidates.

1. Do they understand the problem or threat?

2. Will they actually do anything about the problem or threat?

We have a tendency to elect leaders who are good public relations representatives and smooth talkers but are not leaders who can motivate people to anticipate and solve problems, and get things done within a Constitutional and democratic framework. Here is Dr. Sewell's article."

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Dated

The army called this test "GT" around 1969, if you scored 136 or higher
before 1978, Mensa will accept the result as proof of being in the 98th
percentile. (I've often wondered if this is true, since I scored a 136 in 1966, (22 YO)
USARV Headquarters, Long Binh, RVNbut only an actual IQ of 118 in 1956 (12 YO) Can an IQ increase at all and if so, that much in 10 years? I've never found a definitive answer.)

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The most well known high IQ society is Mensa. To join Mensa one must score in the top 2% of
a standardized IQ test. That really
isn’t all that outstanding. One out of
50 people have IQs high enough to join Mensa.

Numerical IQ scores are not an accurate indicator of
intelligence. For instance a score of 72
on the U.S. Navy GCT test is about equal to score of 150 on the WAIS (Wechsler
Adult Intelligence Scale). Percentile IQ
scores are a more informative measurement.

Way back during the 2004 presidential election I
wrote an article that shook up the major news networks and
the New York Times. I was able to
document that George Bush had a higher IQ score and better grades than John
Kerry. I belong to one of those high IQ
societies, and I am a psychotherapist, so I have a credible background to
evaluate Mr. Trump, even though my opinions are speculative.

Please keep in mind that IQ is a measure of intellect not
character. I will comment on Donald
Trump’s character later in this article.

Donald Trump graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and anthropology. Mensa doesn't accept SAT scores from after 1994. However Mr Trump was a student at Wharton when it was possible to derive an accurate IQ core from known SAT scores. Given the usual requirements for admission to a top school like Wharton, I estimate that Mr. Trump has a 156 IQ at the minimum.More @ The Steady Drip

Taposiris Magna was just another archaeological site in Northern
Egypt, until a rumor arose that the famous queen Cleopatra and her lover
Mark Antony may have been buried there.

Abu Sir (Abusir), also known by its Roman name as Taposiris Magna, is
located 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Alexandria, Egypt. It's an
ancient city that was called Per Usiri by Egyptians, meaning “Dwelling
of Osiris.” The name of the city implies that it's a place of Osiris’
burial, and in the past it was considered to be one of numerous places
where, according to Egyptian mythology, Isis looked for the parts of
Osiris’ body that was dismembered by his brother Seth.

It was also a port on the Mediterranean Sea and one of the most
important trade harbors in the late history of Egypt. To make it even
more attractive, it had another harbor on Lake Maryut.

The last
four occupiers of an Oregon wildlife refuge have posted a series of
defiant videos in which one of them calls FBI agents losers, shows a
defensive perimeter they have built and takes a joyride in a government
vehicle.

The videos were posted Sunday on a YouTube channel called
Defend Your Base, which the armed group has been using to give live
updates. The holdouts are among 16 people charged with conspiracy to
interfere with federal workers in the armed standoff over federal land
policy that has surpassed five weeks.

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.